Category: Politics

Company earnings soar by 30% greater than pre-pandemic ranges

An intensive research by Unite the union has discovered that the UK’s common company revenue margins soared by 30% in comparison with pre-pandemic ranges, exposing a profiteering disaster that’s ‘removed from over’. Evaluation of almost 17,000 corporations within the UK discovered that hundreds of corporations of every kind have seen earnings enhance through the cost-of-living […]

Tariq Bashir Cheema suspended for NA session

Nationwide Meeting (NA) speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Friday suspended PML-Q MNA, Tariq Bashir Cheema for the present session of the decrease home of the parliament. The transfer follows after Tariq Bashir Cheema reportedly used abusive language in opposition to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Zartaj Gul throughout the NA session on Thursday. The approval to ban […]

Contempt of courtroom: SC serves notices to Vawda, Kamal

The Supreme Courtroom on Friday issued show-cause notices to unbiased Senator Faisal Vawda and Muttahida Qaumi Motion-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) chief Mustafa Kamal over their press conferences towards Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) judges. Each the leaders have been requested by the highest courtroom to seem earlier than the bench on the subsequent listening to. A 3-member bench, […]

LRSD outlines $15 million in price range cuts, worker non-renewals

The Little Rock Faculty District board heard a presentation tonight from district directors on efforts to scale back the LRSD’s price range by $15 million within the face of declining scholar enrollment, rising development prices and rates of interest, and different monetary challenges. Decreasing a faculty district’s price range means cuts to the workforce, and tonight’s […]

Arkansas Supreme Court docket greenlights 4 legal guidelines that make voting tougher

Stunning nobody, the staunchly conservative Arkansas Supreme Court docket unanimously upheld 4 2021 state legal guidelines that make voting in Arkansas much less nice, much less handy and fewer more likely to depend. In an opinion issued Thursday, the seven-member courtroom overturned former Pulaski County Circuit Decide Wendell Griffen’s 2022 ruling that the 4 legal […]

Jim Walton provides $500K to defend Arkansas college vouchers from poll measure

Walmart inheritor and Arvest Financial institution CEO Jim Walton donated $500,000 final month to a gaggle working to defeat a proposed constitutional modification on Ok-12 schooling, based on paperwork filed this week with the Arkansas Ethics Fee. The Arkansas Instructional Rights Modification would require private schools that accept public funding in the form of school […]

DLRP to display screen ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Street’ and extra on downtown rooftop

It’s laborious to beat the consistency and abundance of Ron Robinson Theater’s monthly movie screenings, however getting your movie kicks exterior — not to mention on a rooftop — is a distinct ballgame.  Because of the Downtown Little Rock Partnership, you’ll have six probabilities from Might by way of October to plop a garden chair […]

Arkansas Occasions Movie Sequence screens ‘Late Spring’ (1949) Tuesday evening

ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES: ‘LATE SPRING’ TUESDAY 5/21. Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. 7 p.m. $12-$14. Within the Japanese drama “Late Spring” (1949), the 27-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara) fortunately shares a house along with her father, Shukichi Somiya (Chishū Ryū), a professor and widower. They’ve discovered a kind of platonic perfect of a dwelling association with […]

Little Rock doctor accused of Medicaid fraud, sexual misconduct faces medical board listening to

The Arkansas State Medical Board suspended two physicians’ licenses and postponed a listening to relating to allegations in opposition to a 3rd physician throughout a particular assembly Wednesday. Board members didn’t identify the three docs, however Meg Mirivel, spokeswoman for the Arkansas Division of Well being, confirmed the physician going through a listening to is […]

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum to rejoice twenty fifth anniversary with studying retreat

The rationale Ernest Hemingway has a connection to Arkansas is form of juicy.  The brief model of the story is that Hemingway’s second spouse — Pauline Pfeiffer — grew up in Piggott and so he spent a while there visiting the in-laws throughout his and Pfeiffer’s 13-year marriage.  In line with Arkansas Instances editor Austin […]